This Game is Too Real

   Chapter 389 Silence

   The infirmary of Vault 404.

   Luo Hua, who was lying flat on the scanning bed, opened his eyes, and what caught his eye was the silver-white ceiling. He tried to sit up from the bed, but found that the effects of the anesthetic had not worn off, and his body would not obey at all.

   Except for the left hand——

   Looking at the bionic prosthesis in front of him, he swallowed involuntarily.

   At this time, an unfamiliar voice came from the side.

   "Yo, awake?"

  Luo Hua slowly moved his neck and looked at the strange man standing beside the scanning bed. Just as he was about to ask where this was, he suddenly saw hair-thin silver threads floating on the man's arms.

   He recognized that thing, which was a "scalpel" used to perform minimally invasive surgery on neurons, which is commonly found in some large medical instruments used for prosthetic surgery.

  The only people who will put this kind of thing on the bionic prosthesis are those who are obsessed with the technology of the Prosperity Era to the point of being paranoid...

   Adam's apple moved, Luo Hua squeezed out a sentence from his mouth.

   "Are you from the Academy?"

   "That's right, Vault 404 Branch, I'm the dean here."

   Using Chu Guang to make a joke on the cake he drew to ease the atmosphere, Yin Fang retracted the hair-thin knife back to the interface on the inside of his forearm.

   Looking at the man lying on the scanning bed, he smiled lightly and continued.

"Welcome to Vault 404. Besides the dean of the college branch, I am also the head of the scientific research team here. By the way, the bionic organ on your body is very interesting. I just opened it and studied it, you should not mind."

   Luo Hua said helplessly.

   "…do I mind being useful?"

   "It's really useless, it's over." Yin Fang teased and continued, "My name is Yin Fang, if there is any problem with your parts, you can ask me to fix it."

   "Luo Hua...an employee of the Silver Wing Group," Luo Hua looked around with surprise in his eyes, "This...is Vault 404?"

  Yin Fang raised his eyebrows slightly.

   "That's right, you haven't been here?"

   "I've come, I've come..."

   Just don’t remember this room at all.

  Luo Hua stared blankly at the ceiling.

   At this moment, he suddenly remembered something, and immediately looked at Yin Fang who was standing beside the scanning bed and said.

   "Where's your manager?"

   "Just outside the door, do you want me to call him in?"

  Luo Hua nodded, and just as he was about to say "please," the door of the infirmary opened with a bang.

  I saw a man and a woman walk in from outside.

   He also looked at the beautiful woman with long silver hair, but the one standing next to her was familiar to him and could no longer be familiar.

   "Chu Guang..."

  Chu Guang smiled and nodded.

"We meet again."

  Compared to the time when we first met a year ago, the young man lying on the bed is much older, and his face is even more weather-beaten. If Yin Fang hadn't shaved his beard for him, the artist's temperament would have been more obvious.

   A trace of excitement appeared in Luo Hua's eyes, struggling to sit up from the scanning bed, but was stopped by Chu Guang raising his hand.

   "Don't get excited, it's okay to lie down and talk about anything. It's hard to wake you up, don't wait until you're halfway through talking and then faint."

  Chu Guang smiled and continued to ask questions with concern.

   "How do you feel? Is it any better?"

   "Much better..." Luo Hua swallowed, then said, "We found it!"

   "Vault 0?" Chu Guang asked thoughtfully.

   "Yeah!" Luo Hua said excitedly, "Just in the great desert... We found the entrance to that place!"

   "What does it look like?"

"do not know."

   "Don't know?" Chu Guang looked at him unexpectedly, "Didn't you go in?"

   A bitter expression appeared on Luo Hua's face.

   "Accurately speaking, we almost got in..."

  Chu Guang thought to himself: "...Because of the Legion?"

  Luo Hua nodded with a heavy expression.

   "We successfully found the coordinates of Vault 0, and we also got the key to the Vault from a key person...the one in your hand."

  Chu Guang glanced at the silver card in his hand and fell into deep thought.

   Luo Hua, who was lying on the scanning bed, paused for a moment and continued.

   "They are harder to deal with than expected... Although we have power armor, their combat effectiveness is not weak, and the No. 2 oasis closest to the Great Desert, where the Falcon Kingdom is their vassal."

   "Faced with the tide of soldiers, we had to abandon the Trailblazer, and some people hid in the temporary shelter near the base of the space elevator."

  Chu Guang was stunned.

   "...a space elevator?!"

   "Well, don't you know?"

  Luo Hua glanced at Chu Guang strangely, saw the latter nodded slowly, so he continued.

"Near the equator in the middle of the great desert is the site of the Space Elevator of the People's Union era... That thing collapsed two hundred years ago, and its fragments are scattered all over the great desert, and the farthest piece even fell to the east coast. But these are not The point, the point is that Vault 0 is right there!"

   took a deep breath and looked at Chu Guang seriously.

   "Lu Yang... Our captain told me to go all the way east, and no matter what, I must not let the people of the legion get that card."

   "That is our last hope to end all suffering on this earth."

   The index finger and thumb pinched between the eyebrows, Chu Guang took a moment to digest the huge amount of information.

"I will do my best to help you, but the current situation is that the airships of the Legion have already driven under our nose. If we don't solve them, our people will have to detour a lot to the south to enter the Luoxia Province... You have Is there a way to get in touch with the East Coast side?"

   A look of anxiety appeared in Luo Hua's eyes.

   "We have already reported the situation to the company, haven't they arrived yet?"

   Hearing this sentence, Chu Guang's expression became a little subtle.

   "It's here, but there are only a hundred people... Are you sure there are enough people?"

  Luo Hua was obviously stunned.

   "More than 100... How come there are only 100 people?!"

   Looking at Luo Hua whose eyes were gradually filled with anxiety and disbelief, Chu Guang nodded silently and continued.

"That's the truth. The 26th Commando is here, with a staff of over a hundred people, and the leader is Yun Song. Although they have twenty power armors, they are seriously lacking in heavy weapons... To be honest, I don't see how many people there are. It's all boring."

   This is also one of the reasons why he didn't call those people back to help deal with the Heart of Steel. Those more than 100 people were useless at all, so let them go to the west to help first.

   What he needs is more support.

  Whether it is weapons or technology, he wants as much as he has.

  Luo Hua gritted his teeth and said.

"One commando is definitely not enough! Not to mention the two 10,000-strong corps deployed in the west of Luoxia Province, the Falcon Kingdom's standing army is about 100,000! Even 20 power armors... can't deal with it. so many people."

  Chu Guang sighed.

"I also feel that way."

  Especially after seeing the power of the 400mm main gun, he became more convinced of this idea.

   To be honest, he even wondered if something was wrong on the east coast, otherwise why did the reinforcements come with only so many people.

   However, this is clearly not the time to discuss these.

   paused for a moment, then Chu Guang asked.

   "Don't you have any large transport planes or airships or something?"

  Luo Hua had a look of embarrassment on his face.

   "Yes, yes, but it's nearly 3,000 kilometers away from the east coast alone... This distance has far exceeded the maximum range of our 'electric ray'."

   "Electric Ray" is a twin-engine transport aircraft equipped by the enterprise. The flight mode can be switched between fixed-wing and vertical take-off and landing, and the maximum range is only 500 kilometers.

   Otherwise, Yunsong and the others would not have come by land.

For a long time, the company has only the ideal city, a survivor settlement, and other survivor settlements in the province between the clouds just to maintain trade relations. There is neither the need for ultra-long-distance deployment and operations, nor overseas military bases. Therefore, There is no point in the technology of large aircraft at all.

   It is not impossible to start research and development now. With advanced power technology and energy storage technology, it is not difficult for them to design a practical equipment.

   However, it is a question of whether it will be able to catch up with the current crisis.

  Luo Hua fell into deep thought.

   After a long time, he said.

   "Anyway, I have to find a way to contact the company first... I have to tell the people over there about the situation here!"

  Chu Guang asked.

   "Do you still have 'migratory birds'?"

   "Such a big guy...how can I carry it with me," Luo Hua coughed dryly and continued, "But besides migratory birds...there is actually an emergency method."

  Chu Guang asked immediately.

"any solution?"

  Yin Fang, who had been silent for a while, suddenly interrupted.

   "An orbiting satellite again?"

  Luo Hua nodded with a surprised expression on his face.

"……how do you know."

  Yin Fang had an intriguing expression on his face, with a hint of irony in his tone.

   "It's not the first time you've done this."

  Chu Guang frowned slightly, not quite understanding.

   "Orbital satellites? What do you mean? Isn't low-Earth orbit already filled with space junk—"

   "Because the orbit of outer space is full of space junk, you can always find one or two things that can still be used, right?"

   Put down his arms, Yin Fang continued with a teasing tone.

"Just upload a part of the data to a working satellite, and then use the remaining fuel to guide the satellite to fall near the east coast. The person who picks up the satellite only needs to take a crowbar or an axe and smash that lump of iron like a coconut shell. Smash it open, and you can see what's written inside... This kind of thing of burning the piano and cooking the crane is something they can do."

  Chu Guang was stunned.

  What the hell?

   Can it still be like this?

   Not only was Chu Guang stunned, but Heya who was standing beside her also showed a dumbfounded expression.

   Finally heard the sarcasm in that sentence, Luo Hua blushed and said.

   "We don't use it to make phone calls, it's just for emergency use in special circumstances."

  Chu Guang couldn't help saying.

   "But...why do you have to let the satellite fall, just as a signal repeater?"

  Yin Fang shook his head.

"It's too simple to think. First of all, the satellite that can be used in this way is not a low-orbit communication satellite, but a scientific research satellite with a longer battery life and more reliable quality. We generally call it... T-series satellites."

"Satellites of this type are usually located in higher, wider geosynchronous orbits, they are usually relatively stationary with the ground, and can only communicate with research facilities directly below...and the communication is not by radio, but by a narrower range of exposure. laser."

  Chu Guang: "Laser?!"

  Yin Fang nodded and said concisely.

"That's right, when information needs to be exchanged, the ground research facility will fire a beam of light up, and another beam of light will come down from the sky. You can roughly understand that a pistol hits a coin across 36,000 kilometers. The size of the transmitter... The confidentiality of this communication method is very reliable, except for the research facility associated with the satellite, you can hardly contact the satellite from other places, let alone know the specific coordinates of the satellite. "

"Generally speaking, if the ground communication base station is disconnected from the satellite, such satellites will go to sleep until they are awakened again. Therefore, in theory, these satellites usually have residual energy, and the residual energy can meet at least one orbit. switch."

  Chu Guang said thoughtfully.

   "So you just need to find a ground base station that can communicate with this type of satellite, you can write data into the satellite, and then guide the satellite to fall..."

"Yes, so these people burn the piano and cook the cranes. Those people on the east coast can say that the use of the relics of the pre-war civilization can be said to be destructive, and they don't understand what sustainable use is. They threw a scientific research satellite that cost tens of millions. Just to say hi, tsk tsk..."

  Yin Fang clicked his tongue sarcastically.

   Although this sentence was aimed at the company, not at Luo Hua lying here, it still made the latter blushed.

   "Aren't we talking about the Legion? Or do you have a better way?"

  Yin Fang said simply.

   "No, but do you know where to find that kind of research facility?"

"Of course! There is one in the south of the River Valley Province, I remember the coordinates there!" Luo Hua looked at Chu Guang and said sincerely, "That is a research institute, about 70 kilometers away from Qingquan City... The information inside You should be able to use it, can I trouble you to send someone to go?"

  Chu Guang nodded.

"no problem."

   It was easy for him.

  The distance of 70 kilometers is less than an hour for the "Dragonfly" transport aircraft, and it is enough to pass a few parachutes.

   As for dropping a satellite...

   Anyway, that satellite is not his.

   It is enough to get the materials in the research institute.

   Now the top priority is to get the company to send more reinforcements. Of course, it would be better if they could send more weapons.

  The airport in the north of Dawn City is spacious enough to land any transport plane.

  Luo Hua's eyes were filled with gratitude.

"thanks."

  Chu Guang smiled and said.

   "You're welcome, the Legion is our common enemy."

   "Just take care of your injuries, and leave the rest to us. Speaking of which, I've got a few barrels of good wine here, and we'll fix it when you're healed up."

  Luo Hua smiled weakly.

   "Haha... that will have to wait a while."

   The tensed shoulders finally loosened, and leaning on the scanning bed, he finally showed a relieved expression on his face.

   Although his partners far away in the great desert were still in crisis, Chu Guang's supportive attitude gave him hope.

   Heya, who was standing by the door with her arms crossed, suddenly said.

   "Since the operation has been completed... Can you arrange for him to be transferred to a hospital? This is not a place for me to recuperate."

   Although the name of this place is infirmary, in fact, she has long since regarded it as a laboratory, and the only scanning bed in the alliance is an essential research tool.

   Luo Hua had an embarrassed expression on his face.

   "Excuse me."

  Chu Guang said with a smile.

   "How could that be? But this is really not suitable for recuperation. I will arrange for someone to transfer you to a ward with a better environment later."

   After he finished speaking, he called in the medical staff who were waiting at the door, and ordered Luo Hua to be transferred to the Union First Hospital on the ground.

  The ward there is spacious enough, and several wounded left by the previous corporate expedition also lived there.

   As for medical bills...

   It would be too outlandish to say that.

  Yin Fang, who was standing next to him, folded his arms, and was still muttering in his mouth until the medical staff transferred the wounded to the door of the infirmary.

"I knew it……"

   "These guys from the East Coast must have a treasure map in their hands!"

  …

   That evening.

   A transport plane set sail from the north of Dawn City, carrying 25 players of the Burning Corps, and flew towards the research facility 70 kilometers away to the east.

   At the same time, in Ruigu City, 150 kilometers west of Dawn City, the White Bear Knights and the Death Corps' raid on Vault 79 had also entered the final stage.

   The main road leading to the Central Research Area has been cleared.

  Although the aliens and "savages" are still rushing up from other areas, the offensive is obviously not as good as the first few days.

   In the end, the alien species active in this sanctuary are not the slime mold fruiting bodies that are dominated by the "hive consciousness".

   Their attacks on players are more motivated by the two motives of protecting territory and hunting, and there is no tacit cooperation between different species, let alone forming a large-scale "wave".

  If it were replaced by the city center of Qingquan City, all the alien species from the entire street would come up with a gunshot, and they would not be able to stand up to doubling their number...

   "Mom... This guy is quite strong!"

   shook off the blood on the engineer's shovel. The construction site boy and Brick clicked their tongues as they looked at the mess in the room. They held the assault rifle hanging on their chest again and changed the magazine.

  Forty or fifty corpses were lying about in the wide hall, primitive weapons such as spears, bows and arrows were scattered on the ground, and there were bullet casings emitting blue smoke.

   A skirmish just broke out here.

  The opponent was a group of savages, who seemed to be ambushing nearby, and suddenly launched an attack after the players entered the room.

  The skin of these people is morbidly pale, but the limbs are surprisingly strong, and the strength attribute is about 13~15, which is equivalent to the level of the first awakening.

   Not only that, they are extremely fast, their toughness is amazing, and their dexterity in the use of body muscles is like a beast.

   Or to be more precise, they are beasts, and almost none of the internal organs are the same as people, but they just happen to look more like people.

   Fortunately, these wildlings can only use bows and spears.

   Otherwise, it's really hard to deal with.

   "There is one last 'level' left from the research area. It is suspected to be the lair of Death Claw. We are running out of ammunition..."

   Carrying the rifle on his shoulder, he paddled to the front of the White Bear Knights and continued.

   "I suggest continuing the strategy tomorrow."

   "The tail agrees! Huh, I'm dying of exhaustion!"

   Leaning on his tail against the wall, panting heavily, he raised his arm and rubbed it on his forehead, but instead of sweating off, he wiped the blood on his forehead.

   Sisi, who was also panting, glanced at the remaining magazines and nodded.

   "Well... we'll continue tomorrow."

   Vault 79 has day and night changes, and it will be night in a while.

   looked around, she continued.

   "There are still a lot of rooms here. Since the blame has been cleared, let's explore a little and go back."

  This is the last building from the research area, it seems to be an administrative building or something. When searching other areas before, she found some interesting clues.

   Before leaving here, she intends to verify.

   Hearing Si Si's proposal, the edge paddle readily agreed.

   "Ok, we'll gather in one hour."

   "OK."

After    reached an agreement, the players scattered in the room to search.

  The tail, which was too tired a second ago, jumped up from the ground with a snort, and didn't know where to go with the meat.

  Sisi, who had already thought about his target, after looking at the floor plan, he went straight through the hall and followed the stairs to the office area upstairs.

   This place is unexpectedly not occupied by aliens.

  The whole corridor was silent.

   What surprised Sisi in particular was that, unlike the areas they passed through before, the doors of the rooms here were all open.

   "Oh, unexpected discovery..."

   picked the nearest room, and after carefully checking the safety of the room, Sisi carefully walked in with a rifle.

  This is a futuristic office.

The furniture inside    is quite unique, with an area of ​​nearly 20 square meters, and only two tables are placed quite luxuriously.

   Walking to the nearest table, Sisi glanced at the messy tabletop and opened the drawer on the right.

   There are some personal items inside, including a work permit, and a thumb-sized memory.

  The interface of the memory is exactly the same as that of the VM.

   "This is... a USB flash drive?"

With a look of interest in   's eyes, Si Si held it in his hand and looked at it for a while, then plugged it into the VM.

The    signal light flickered slightly, and a light blue dialog box was quickly presented in front of her, which was automatically translated into a language she could understand by the built-in translation program in the VM.

  【Research Log of Vault 79】

  【Experiment Log: 2129/February/7th】

  【Experimental log:......】

   The last journal entry is dated July 8, 2178.

   Speaking of...

  2129 seems to be the first year of the Wasteland Era?

   Lightly rubbed his chin with his index finger, the interest in Sisi's eyes became more and more obvious, and then he clicked on the first log in the list.

[2129/February/7: The dormant cabin is opened, and it is not the happy compatriots who wake us up, but the procedure of the refuge, which shows that we have finally reached the worst ending, the outside world has been destroyed, here is the final My home...damn, it sounds like a dream, but rubidium atomic clocks don't lie. 】

  【I will remember this desperate and hopeful day, we will fulfill the vows we made three years ago... But can such a whimsical thing really be done? 】

   "...a whimsical thing?"

   whispered softly in her mouth, and her brows were slightly wrinkled.

   That Yongshi mentioned that Vault 79 is conducting research on "returning mutant creatures to their pre-mutation levels".

   Could there be xenomorphs in the first year of the Wasteland Era?

   She vaguely remembered that it was mentioned in the official website setting that the time point for the large-scale appearance of xenogeneic species should be after half a century of the Little Ice Age?

   "That is to say..."

   "Are other experiments actually going on here?"

   She wouldn't believe every word the NPC said. In fact, she had always been suspicious of the Yongshi's identity.

   Since it is a completely real virtual reality game, is it possible for NPCs to lie?

   However, just as she was about to turn to the next chapter, the alloy door behind her suddenly fell, cutting off the only exit.

  Sisi's face changed slightly, and he rushed over immediately, hitting the door with his shoulder, only to find that the door didn't move at all.

   Without hesitation, she took a few steps back, raised the assault rifle hanging on her chest, and pulled the trigger on the alloy door.

   "Bang Bang" two thunderous gunshots echoed in the room. The jumping sparks shot up to the ceiling, but there was not even a single bullet mark on the surface of the door.

   She took a deep breath, walked to the door and groped for a while, her hands circled into a trumpet shape, and she shouted against the door.

   "Awei!"

"can you hear me?"

no respond.

   She put her ear on it, and couldn't hear any sound outside.

   "Tsk...the sound insulation effect is too strong."

With a    tsk, Sisi gave up the pointless attempt and moved his ears away from the door.

   In the shelter, the authority of the manager is absolute—at this moment, she finally realized the meaning of this setting.

   Condensed the crystallization of the strongest technology in the People's League era, and it was simply not something that the retro assault rifle in her hand could penetrate.

   I'm afraid it won't help even if you use the grenade on your body.

   As long as the shelter's manager wishes.

   He can even lock the door into the next century.

   At this moment, Si Si suddenly noticed that the air outlet above his head had disappeared for some time, and seemed to have stopped working.

   Knowing it in her heart, she muttered in a low voice,

   "Are you planning to silence..."

   That guy was about to kill him.

  Otherwise he could have locked the door before he came in.

   "A normal adult consumes 0.75 kilograms of oxygen a day... A 20-square-meter room is about 3 meters high, which is 60 cubic meters of air."

   Carbon dioxide poisoning occurs when the oxygen content is less than 10%.

   "In other words...you can live for about 5 days."

   Considering the metabolic rate of the awakened person, maybe two or three days will be almost the same.

   Glancing at the logs on the VM screen, Si Si's mouth suddenly drew an imperceptible smile.

   It’s too much to leave time for yourself…

   is too much.

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   (Thanks to the leaders of "My name is Wang Laoji", "NightChicK3n", and "Small Dimple Accompaniment" for the reward!!!)

   (end of this chapter)